Well after nearly 6 hours of content only four days ago, I’ve got another 2 for you here you lucky lucky people! I’m joined by Mitzy and Jimbo as we discuss their upcoming event Realms at War (#RAW16). I had a great fun time chatting with them, hopefully you enjoy it as well.

Oh, there’s also a cheeky little fluff reading thrown in for good measure…let me know what you think!!

If you are interested in a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

So…you’ve had a bit of a wait for this episode, right? Well, never fear as here you have not one podcast, but three in one!

This is our longest ever show by some way and features coverage of Facehammer GT, Cheltenham Warchiefs GT and an interview with the FHGT winner, Sam Davies.

I would never normally release a show of this length, it literally should be split into three. However with episode 100 being so close I wanted to hold off a bit. Anyway, hope you enjoy and get though it all!

If you are interested in a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

After a bit of a break we are back…well, I am! It’s been such a busy time recently with so much going on, in and out of the hobby. However I didn’t want to let any Tournaments go by without coverage. So with that in mind, I got on the mic and recorded a bit of an update of the last 5 weeks by myself.

Not overly keen on solo episodes, so please see this as a one off and I’ll be back with some friends to have some fun again soon!!

If you are interested in a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

So this episode is a day late as I’ve been super super busy (more on that next episode!), but here is our coverage of Rain of Stars – my one day charity tournament. Thanks so much to everyone who donated in anyway – the event raised a phenomenal £1,091.46 with Adam Elford’s army raffle hitting £920 – so over £2,000 in total. Utterly stunning, really impressive stuff.

If you are interested in a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

I’m terribly hungover, but want to ensure this episode is out on time – so no real show notes I’m afraid. This episode is composed of two interviews. You can find out more about the events discussed here;

Make sure you check out Barnsley Models and Games (link above). If you use the voucher code Blacksun10 for 10% off and during the month of July you will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower and also a Battletome of your choosing. If they don’t have something you want on the website give them a call or an e-mail.
There is no minimum order value for this great offer, so please check them out and get an order in – good luck with the draw!!

Thanks to everyone who bought a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, they have now been posted out. If you are still interested in one, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

Fresh back from Call To War, myself and Ricky are joined by Andy Talbot from The Lost Lighthouse’s Age of Sigbrah podcast to recount our time at the event.

Ricky has actually done some hobby, so we go over that, as well as Nerf, Silver Tower, my love of Whitney Houston and various other nonsense.

There is also a brief segment with Adam Aelford from the Tales of Sigmar podcast as he tells us about his charity raffle (part of Rain of Stars fundraising for Julias House). You can find out more on his TGA blog – http://www.tga.community/blogs/entry/97-details/

Make sure you check out Barnsley Models and Games (link above). If you use the voucher code Blacksun10 for 10% off and during the month of July you will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower and also a Battletome of your choosing. If they don’t have something you want on the website give them a call or an e-mail.
There is no minimum order value for this great offer, so please check them out and get an order in – good luck with the draw!!

Thanks to everyone who bought a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, they have now been posted out. If you are still interested in one, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

Hope you all enjoyed the last show? This time round myself and Matt Lyons have a bit of a general hobby catch-up in the run up to Call to War next weekend – including some drunken tales and Matt’s recent success at the gaming table.

Make sure you check out our new sponsor Barnsley Models and Games (link above). If you use the voucher code Blacksun10 for 10% off and during the month of June you will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower and also a Battletome of your choosing. If they don’t have something you want on the website give them a call or an e-mail.
There is no minimum order value for this great offer, so please check them out and get an order in – good luck with the draw!!

Thanks to everyone who bought a Lay Low The Tyrants t-shirt, they have now been posted out. If you are still interested in one, get in touch as I will look to do a second print run.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

Welcome back to another instalment of TBS! This time round, me and the newly renamed Cowboy Boots Matt Lyons are joined by hobby supremo Russ Veal for a bit of a chat on painting – more specifically preparing an army for an event.

Please note that as a Skype show (something I try to avoid) there are some sound issues, so apologies for this. Hopefully the content makes up for this.

Let me know what you think as I would like to do more painting chat like this if it goes down well. Just trying a few different things at the moment.

Make sure you check out our new sponsor Barnsley Models and Games (link above). If you use the voucher code Blacksun10 for 10% off and during the month of June you will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower and also a Battletome of your choosing. If they don’t have something you want on the website give them a call or an e-mail.
There is no minimum order value for this great offer, so please check them out and get an order in – good luck with the draw!!

Back again on schedule, check us! Here is the Stormcast Eternal review we’ve been talking about for a while. It’s basically just us reading through the Warscrolls and our thoughts. Nothing too exciting, but let us know if you enjoy it and we can do more for the other Battletomes.

Make sure you check out our new sponsor Barnsley Models and Games (link above). If you use the voucher code Blacksun10 for 10% off and during the month of June you will be entered into a draw to win a copy of Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower and also a Battletome of your choice. If they don’t have something you want on the website give them a call or an e-mail.
There is no minimum order value for this great offer, so please check them out and get an order in – good luck with the draw!!

We are now also going about the music in a slightly different way so let me know your thoughts on that. We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

Quite a sedate episode as we go over the newly released SCGT pack giving some initial thoughts.

My personal highlight of the episode is a special message from Russ “The Face” Veal, so listen out for that.

New Dawn tickets are available into 07/02/16 so there is still time to join us there. We announce a fantastic offer from Scenery Dice and fail to mention a great offer where by if you enter New Dawn you can get a FREE ticket to the SELWG Smash event! see details below.

Teal dice have unfortunately sold out, but there are some black & gold still available. Get them whilst you can!

I’ve also started a new thing on Twitter where I create a poll, so you the listener can pick one of the music breaks – this was won today by the amazing Taylor Swift!! Look out for this feature in future!

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

Welcome back to another episode as I am once again joined by Dom and Ricky to chat some more Warhammer!

We failed in our attempts to keep to the proposed shorter and sensible format, as the show creeps over 2 hours and has some..ur..interesting(?) chat about a minute in. But stick with it as we get into the good stuff quick enough.

This episode covers Fyreslayers, coverage of games we’ve played, SDK comp and hobby plans – Lets see if Ricky can make 2016 the year he delivers and actually does some hobby!

I was feeling slightly under the weather so my throat and voice were a little dodgy – apologies, but I was keen to get an episode out between New Year and the SCGT comp pack coming out as discussed.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

The new dice are now available to pre order. Please see a few posts below and get on that!

After a five month hiatus, the crew are finally back together as the dust begins to settle post Age of Sigmar. If you are wondering what we are going to be covering – have a little listen and find out.

This episode does lack a bit of focus to be honest as we just catch up on what’s been happening and what the rest of the TBS boys are up to.

But I’ll keep this brief due to the nature of the show, in future there will be more comprehensive show notes as per usual.

We’d love to hear from you. The show e-mail address is theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and all our Twitter handles can be found on the contacts page.

I am pleased to announce two lovely new TBS dice designs to celebrate the impending return of the show. Both Black & Gold and Teal & Gold are now available for pre order! To get your hands on them, carefully follow the instructions below. To qualify the term “pre order”, these dice have already been paid for and ordered by myself, I am expecting to receive delivery of them in around 5-6 weeks (please note I have no control over this and there could feasibly be delays). Once I have taken delivery of them I will post out.

So lets get down to business. My Paypal address is lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com and you need to be sending as a gift or friends and family – this is important! Be sure to include your address and what colour dice you want in the notes.

Dice cost £8 for 10 dice in either the Black & Gold or Teal & Gold (ie 10 of one colour, there is no mixing 5 of each, if you want a mix buy 2 sets!).

Wow…another monumental episode here. Get ready for the final Warhammer Fantasy Battle episode of The Black Sun.

With the Age of Sigmar dawning it’s time to give one last Tournament (Hobby Event?) report. And what better than the Hobby Mingvitationals. I am joined by Scott and Matt as well as special guest host Ming Lee as we cover his superb event. Unfortunately a couple of great stories were forgotten, such as the Piñata, but this is always the way!

This show was also recorded after the Age of Sigmar boxset and rules had been leaked, but before the War Scrolls. There is some #AoS chat, but it may be already irrelevant knowing what we do now.

Listen in after the outro for some more “live” content from #HMV15 including the speed painting!

Also, please remember to check out our Darklands blog, which is now in full swing with some fantastic content already. Please check that out at http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Now that #hmv15 is over, we are back to regular episodes as we count down to the end of 8th edition. I am predicting that the show after this one will be the final 8th edition related show. Crazy!

I said regular episodes, however this one is a little special as I am not joined by any regular co-host, instead Jon Warmington and Richard Ciereszko come on to give a TO’s report on their recent hobby event (Because I do love to cover these!!), Whoops – The End Times. Thanks a lot to both Jon and Rich, it was a fun time and hopefully you’ll all enjoy the show. You can find out more about the event including the rulespack, fluff etc over on TWF – http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=126705

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder one final time that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated. Massive thanks to those of you who have so far.

With all the Mingterviews finished, myself and Ming get together one last time just to reflect on the series and discuss the impending event!

I really hope you have all enjoyed this series as much as I have enjoyed making it. It’s been a labour of love at times, but totally worth it.

Please make sure you are on Twitter this coming weekend (13-14th June), following myself @the_black_sun and Ming @Thornshield for plenty of coverage featuring all the fantastic armies we have discussed throughout this series. Just search for the hashtag #HMV15

Episode LXXXIV of the main TBS show will be a review of this event and hopefully Ming will join myself, Scott and Matt for that.

Just one final reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to those who have support so far.

Well this is almost it boys and girls (I know at least one will be listening; hi Liz!), this is the final Mingterview and myself and Mr Lee are joined by Adam Bassett. I say “almost it” as there will be one final show ahead of the event itself for me and Ming to look back and reflect on the series, before crying a little bit.

However before that emotional finale, we have one of the most fun Mingterviews for you to enjoy! A vodka fuelled Adam tells us all about his Host of the Phoenix King (is that even a thing?), which has to be the most flat out weird and wonderful we’ve discussed throughout the series!
Adam, who works around the corner from Firestorm Games, also gives one of the greatest Element Games shout outs to date!
You can follow Adam on Twitter @DiscoQing

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Make sure you come back for the final *sob* #HMV15 show in a couple of days time.

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to those who have support so far.

With just three more Mingterview’s to go, me and Ming are joined by UK tournament scene painting supremo Jon Warmington.

Jon is actually going to appear on the next full episode of TBS as well.
We hear all about his brilliant Lizardmen and yes, he beat me to a Best in Race at Clash 2013!!
You can follow Jon on Twitter @JonWarmington

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for the penultimate episode in 2-3 days time!

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to anyone who has shown their support so far!

Only 4 #hmv15 shows now remain! But never fear as here we have a bumper length episode with the final group interview as 3 members of the EATBATS Team join me and Ming to talk all things fluff and filth; Rog Barnett, Mark Mitzman and Paul Berridge. There is also an impromptu review of the SCGT ’14 (yup, ’14!). Make sure you get on Twitter and start following these boys. Rog is @RogBarnett , Mitzy is @markmitzman and Paul is @paulberridge – Gotta love the imagination there!!

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 2-3 days in the run up to the event next weekend!

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks to those whom have helped out so far. Much love x
Chris – @the_black_sun

This time around we are joined by Dan Quirk, winner of many a Best Painted trophy across the years. His list has to be one of the most bizarre we’ve discussed so far and I can’t wait to see it in the flesh. Also I have to note that this front cover is my favourite so far! You can follow Dan on Twitter @Filmcorai

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 2-3 days as we enter the final few shows in the run-up to the event.

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Once again I am joined by a regular co-host alongside Ming as Scott The Boss Lines drops in to tell you all about his rubbish Beas…I mean Legions of Chaos list! if you also listen to the main show, this follows on directly after we recorded Episode LXXXII. It’s the first Mingterview where I am a bit drunk and Scott was also in a silly mood. It’s quite a long episode, but even so a LOT was cut haha! Hopefully you’ll still enjoy it, even if it does feel more regular TBS than #HMV15. Normal service will resume next Mingterview as we begin our count down with the final 5 episodes!! Noooo!!

You can follow Scott on Twitter @Scott_The_Boss

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated.
Chris – @the_black_sun

Nice short little show for you here. Its a bit of a battle report this time, as The Chaos Legions of myself and The Boss clash in an epic 2,600 point game. The game features no less than 4 (Scott would argue 5) Special Characters and was a blast.

I also just wanted to give out a little reminder that there is a PayPal donation button on the top right of the website at http://theblacksun.co.uk – I have had to upgrade the Podcast account due to exceeding upload limits thanks to all the shows that are being pumped out currently. On other Podcasts the #HMV15 series may well have ended up as part of a premium members only section. All TBS content is completely free for our listeners with nothing held back. If you enjoy the show and are able to donate any amount to assist with my running costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

This time it’s number 13, apparently unlucky for some, but certainly not you listeners. There’s a treat in store as Ian Carse joins us to talk about his lovely and highly thematic Empire army. He also is the first to pretty much derail the standard format of the show, which happens in a highly entertaining fashion!! You can follow Ian on Twitter @SquireCarse

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

For the 12th Mingterview we are joined by regular co-host Matt Lyons (the artist formally known as Matt Lee!). He tells us all about what he had planned for this event (one sort of filth) and what he has ended up submitting (a different kind of filth!). You can follow Matt on Twitter @RageQuitMatt

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

This time me and Ming are joined by Ken Groom to discuss his absolutely fantastic Warriors of Chaos monster army, led by none other than Kholek Suneater himself!! Ken tells us about his conversions, basing and even touches on Universal Battle (http://www.universalbattle.com/) . You can follow Ken on Twitter @RaZeR_233

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

So here we are with our annual coverage of the massive South Coast Grand Tournament. The good news is there is a full house as I’m joined by Scott, Dom and Diesel.

The bad news is unfortunately that there were some massive issues with the audio here. It was distorted during recording, which I think I’ve now pinpointed to a dodgy USB socket. Annoyingly the outtake after outro is fine, which was recorded before the main show, so something must of gone awry after that. It’s such a shame as the content is pretty good and old skool TBS I think.

TUNES!!
Intro – Alesana – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
0:29:45 – A Day to Remember – A Shot In the Dark
0:52:05 – Nekrogoblikon – Powercore
1:28:55 – Hollywood Undead – Day of the Dead
2:10:00 – Crown the Empire – Graveyard Souls
Outro – A Day to Remember – The Price We Pay

This time around, myself and Ming are joined by converter (not kitbasher!!) extraordinaire Rob Ellis as we discuss his filthy Warriors of Chaos. We talk about some of the ambitious and advanced techniques he has planned for the army. You can follow Rob on Twitter @RobEllis21 and find out if he gets finished in time!!

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

Welcome to a particularly creepy & spooky Mingterview! This time myself and Ming are joined by two super special guests in the form of Steve Foote and James Morgan. There is also a 5th presence in the episode as the Cult of Sobek make themselves known!!

As well as a Scott-esque fluff reading you can also hear all about Steve’s monster mash Tomb Kings and James’ Minotaur herd! You can follow them on Twitter – @tinracersteve @alone_withmyaxe @cultofsobek

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

Whilst I have quite the epic SCGT episode to get editing, I’m not gonna leave you short of your Mingterview fix, oh no!

This time around me and Ming are joined by James “Jimbo” Warth to chat all about his fantastic monster heavy Dark Elf army – you know I’m going to be a fan of this one!! You can follow Jimbo on Twitter @jimbo9jimbo

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

Hot on the heels of Episode LXXX of the main show, here we have the 7th Mingterview!

In this super fun minisode, myself and Dictator Ming are joined by a man with a surname impossible to pronounce; Dan Comeau! We hear all about Dan’s superbly themed Khorne army and Ming shows just how far he’s willing to reward (should that be punish?) great fluff! You can follow Dan on Twitter @DanComeau

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3 -4 days.

So whilst the Mingterviews are coming out thick and fast, it’s important we don’t neglect the main show. With that in mind, it’s time to find out how our long running escalation campaign, The Slaughtering Grounds, wound up during its epic conclusion. The intro and outro to this episode are a bit of a monologue from myself, but the meat of the episode features all the campaign bros as its was recorded “live” on the day. If you’re into your fluff readings, stay on after the outro track, though as heads up it’s not Scott style fantasy filth I’m afraid!

Please please please make sure you check out the now finished blog at http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com/ – so much work has gone into this and I’d love for everyone to take a look. It’s finished up with 52 photos from the final gaming day, which are pretty cool. Also the final posts from each participant are a great read; see how they wrapped up their fluff, final campaign thoughts and they are all of course accompanied by some nice photos of the armies.

For this episode, me and the ever present Ming Lee are joined by a TBS favourite, “The Doctor” himself, Ian Gilmore!! Find out all about his amazing Nurgle army, featuring The Glottkin and Festus Empowered! You can follow Ian on Twitter @Drakenhof (sorry really should’ve done that for all episodes)

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 3-4 days.

This time me and Ming are joined by four special guests in a bumper edition of these mini episodes! Mark Borland, Tony Hayle and Paul Godbold of the Milton Keynes Wargames Society as well as Cai Bird come on to chat about their excellent projects for #hmv15. We have Araby, Night Goblins, Vampires and a Chaos Monster Mash to tell you all about. It really is exciting stuff!!

I really appreciate all feedback in regards to these shows specifically. Stayed tune for another interview in the next 2-3 days.

This series will focus around Ming Lee’s upcoming event hobby spectacular – The Hobby Ming-vitionals.
Across these mini episodes I will be interviewing the participants of this event to talk about their hobby plans and lists.
Every single gamer featured will be an expert in one or more field of our hobby (painting, conversion, theme, etc),
so the interviews promise to be exciting stuff.

For the first episode I am joined by Ming, who is no hobby slouch himself!
Ming will also be joining me on future episodes as we chat to some of his entrants.

I really hope you all enjoy this. If not, don’t despair, regular TBS episodes will be released amidst the #HMV15 mayhem!!

Nope unfortunately this *still* isn’t the Waaagh! Paca show you are hoping for. I am pleased to say however that a monstrosity of a show has been recorded for that event coverage and will be released next (when I can stomach the edit!).

For this Episode I am joined by Scott as we discuss the penultimate month of our Slaughtering Grounds campaigns. Please head on over to http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com to play along at home – its worth nothing that at the moment I have not posted the monthly wrap up.

I *think* the sound is better for this show. I have a few things to test before recording the next 2 episodes this coming week. I did accidently export this as a .wav file and subsequently have to recode it as an .mp3 but I don’t think that has affected the sound quality.

Anyway, this time I am joined by Dom & Diesel as we discuss their time at the BIG House Championships. A full End Times filth event that took place on the same weekend me, Scott & Matt were fluffing it up at the Painting Masters.

First up, I gotta apologise for the sound quality of this Episode. I think I had a mixer issue in the week I recorded this, Episode 76 (though I haven’t started the edit yet) and some of the Mierce stuff. I think I’ve identified the issue and it will be resolved for Episode 77. Sorry about this, I really hope it doesn’t ruin your enjoyment. I do hate it when the sound quality isn’t what I want it to be.

For this Episode I am joined by Scott and Matt as we recount our time at the Painting Masters. I thought this would be a nice short and sensible show. Boy I was wrong! Turned out completely different to how I expected, but I was laughing a lot during the edit, which is usually a good sign.

I won’t bother list the highlights; there are plenty of them I think. Hopefully you guys enjoy it.

Once again I’m joined my Mierce Miniatures Maestro Tim Fisher for a bit of an update on how to Kickstarter is coming along.
There’s loads to update you on and as you’d expect a couple of Podcast exclusives.

Unfortunately there are some sound issues but it does level out so please keep with it – the important thing is that Tim’s vocals are of a good volume!!

Make sure you check out the Kickstarter comments page and follow Tim (@timfisher22) and Mierce (@banelegions) on Twitter.

I’m joined by Tim Fisher once again for the first of our mini episodes, giving you an update on how the Kickstarter is going and some podcast exclusive reveals – including the sweet bit of concept art on the episode cover!

Bit of a special episode here as I catch up with Mierce Miniatures very own Tim Fisher. I’m really happy with this episode and hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording it.

Tim gives us some background of himself as a hobbyist and we have a brief chat about the Painting Masters which we both attended a few days after recording this.

We then cover the current crop of WFB 9th edition rumours, before introducing Mierce as a company.

Finally we get into the main talking point; the upcoming BaneBeasts Kickstarter from Mierce. Myself and Tim will be putting up a number of mini shows over the duration of the Kickstarter to keep you up to date, starting with one on 19/01/15 when the Kickstarter is expected to go live.

Finally we wrap up with some Twitter questions for Tim.

Please note that the TBS #endoftimesbro T-Shirts are no longer available to order I’m afraid.

Time to buckle up tight for this car crash of a Christmas / New Years special! (Yeh, yeh, its late I know!) So what have we in store for you today then?

** Full house feating; Chris, Dom, Gary, Diesel, Aaron, Joe, Matt and Amy, Jan and a late arrival…shocker, its Rick!
** Old skool TBS pub recording (so please forgive the sound quality, its better in places). Also apologies for the hoarseness of my voice
** Play along at home by getting drunk as you listen, that way you won’t notice the hosts getting drunker!
** Individual interviews with each of the guest hosts, including entrance music for each.
** Listener questions in the return of fan favourite segment; Ask Ben Diesel!
** Shout outs…

As well as the big man, myself and Dommy Four Fingers are joined by a second special guest in the form of Chippy Rick for a super (read: too) long Tournament report episode! Stay tuned for the following and lots lots more;

** Blood and Glory report (featuring some classic Ben Diesel battle reports!)
** An update on Diesel’s neverending army project; The Vampire Counts Empire (VCE)
** Laddish behaviour – Please note that this was tongue in cheek!
** Some of the poorest evening shenanigans stories ever; embarrassing!!
** Really bad sound on this one I’m afraid guys. As you’d expect from the Return of Diesel, there are background noises aplenty, including lots of eating! Most of it got left it, partially for the lolz! Ricky had a bad cough which again was tricky to fully edit out and obviously had to keep the energy up by eating crisps! Finally, due to number of people, I was on the squeaky chair! Sorry people. However, this will be significantly better than the next show (recorded in a pub)!
** Shout outs…

– Check out Scott’s Just Giving page – https://www.justgiving.com/Alex-Wilson21/ (He will put pics of himself up there soon.
– TBS T-shirts; you’ve been asking for them and they are finally here! Please check out http://www.theblacksun.co.uk for a post detailing how to get in on the action!
– Whoops – The End Times; a super fun looking event. The TO’s will be joining me on the show in the New Year to discuss further. http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=126705
– The Lost Lighthouse; check out The Tabletop Project episodes for yet more Chris! http://thelostlighthouse.com/
– Finally, check out JD Sports for some awesome deals; http://www.jdsports.co.uk/home

Now just fingers crossed that the drunken mess that is the Xmas show can actually be edited into some semblance of a show!!

The Undead Legions #notaraffle has now all wrapped up with the winners…um recipients, being announced on Twitter this past Sunday.

Before that, I just need to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who donated. I raised a staggering £912!!

This is way beyond my wildest dreams and pretty much pays for the entire Waaagh! Paca trip. Fantastic stuff.

The draw was done on a Skype Videocall with Joe Hadfield (@TheJoeHadfield) rolling the dice and Neil Peckett (@TrimControls) checking the Spreadsheet. Neither donated so were completely impartial. Thanks to the both of them for assisting.

Due to the enormous total raised as well as the main prize, I was also able to give away 3 of the upcoming TBS T-shirts (these will be going on general preorder later tonight). The lucky people were…

Hahaha! Fantastic stuff. If you don’t know David, please be sure to check out his brilliant Podcast www.garagehammer.com – funnily enough this was announced mere minutes before I got on a Skype call to record on David’s show. His reaction was brilliant, as a big VC player already he was clearly thrilled.

Anyway, that’s about everything I think!
Wow, what a ride. Thanks again, much love,

There are now less than 24 hours remaining and we are up to the simply bananas total of £849!! Please check out the posts just a little bit below to see the initial army. On top of this, the following will now be included;

All of the models above will be painted by myself to match the rest of the army. I will probably send the initial army to the recipient and then follow it up with these once they are finished. Its quite an undertaking.

I have no further models to add as “stretch goals”, but as you’ll soon see I am going to be putting up pre orders for the first TBS T-shirts. So what I’m gonna do is for every multiple of £25 that is donated (started for £850, so only £1 more required) I will pick another person who will receive a T-shirt.

For example…

£850 – A person (other than the recipient of the army) gets a new TBS T-shirt
£875 – A person (other than the recipient of the army) gets a new TBS T-shirt
£900 – A person (other than the recipient of the army) gets a new TBS T-shirt
£925 – A person (other than the recipient of the army) gets a new TBS T-shirt

…and so on (as if haha!!). If the same name is drawn, it will be redrawn so there are different recipients for each item. Hopefully that makes sense.

The drawing of recipients will take place on Saturday morning via a Skype video call. Follow my Twitter @the_black_sun for details as they unfold. It promises to be super exciting!

Please scroll down for photos and full details, but here is a snap shot of what you have to do to get involved;

To the right of this post is a Paypal donate button. I would kindly ask that if you get any small measure of enjoyment from what me and my boys produce, you click the button and donate any amount, small or large, in multiples of £1 (please note).

Aside from this, please do not write any comment whatsoever in your donation (other than your name if you use someone else’s account). I cannot stress this point enough. You can also send Paypal as gift to lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com (THIS OPTION IS PREFERRED PLEASE) – the same applies though; Do not put a message (other than name if need be).

**EDIT – a Twitter handle in the note is also acceptable**

So for every multiple of £1 you donate I will give you give a like for like number of chances to be the recipient of the Vampire Counts / Undead Legions army below (or potentially a T-shirt)

This is not a raffle and you are not buying tickets. This is bro’s helping out bro’s.

It’s worth reading all these posts fully before donating. Please be clear its a donation and please please do not use a note with your payment!!!

You have until 10pm GMT Friday 12th December 2014 for your donation to be included in this.

After a short break, due to me finally moving into my new house and waiting for Wifi we are good to go again. This episode features the following;

** Month Nine of The Slaughtering Grounds campaign. Not much painting has been done and Scott’s Beastmen are bent!! Follow along at http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com/
** The Boss gives us a fan-fluff reading!
** Chris unveils himself as The Eternity King
** Some Glottkin spoilers are discussed, so beware if you’ve not read it yet.
** Little bit of Khaine rage. I now own and have read the book (It’s amazing!)…it also transpired that Scott had two at the time of recording and eBayed one!!
** Chris and Scott are generally confused about what they wanna do with WFB at the moment, but still love it really!!
** What feels like a million shout outs…

So we are just over a week into the fund raising extravaganza and I just want to say a massive massive thank you to everyone who has donated thus far. This has now exceeded my expectations and the actual process has just been highly enjoyable.

Firstly, if you can’t be bothered to scroll down, check the original post here – you will find full details of how to get involved there.

Here is where we are at with the “stretch goals” currently…

£400– The fully painted Vampire Counts army will be given away (see pics below or via link above)£450 – Vampire Counts army book and ltd ed magic cards added!£500 – Tomb Kings army book and ltd ed magic cards added!£550 – Sartosan Vampire model added – I will personally paint this to fit in with the army. Most people prefer to field the Vampire over the Ghoul King so I’m sure the recipient will be pleased. Lovely model as well.£600 – Converted VC themed Casket of Souls added – I will personally paint this to fit in with the army. This just became an Undead Legions army!!

Currently we are sat at the huge figure of **£628**. This is amazing. It also means I need some more “stretch goals”. So lets see (I don’t for one second think all of these will be reached by the way!!);

£650 – 30 Mantic Zombies will be added, painted by me to match the army.£700 – 30 Mantic Zombies will be added, painted by me to match the army (so 60 total!).£750 – 30 Mantic Zombies will be added, painted by me to match the army (so 90 total!!).£800 – Mannfred von Carstein, Mortarch of Night will be added, painted by me to match the army!!!

So there we go! As I said, this has already gotten bigger than I’d hoped, but please don’t stop now!! Someone is going to be made very happy in return.

*Please note that I cannot promise a timeframe for when the additional models will be painted. I’m happy to send the army first and the other bits when complete though*

Here is a couple of pics of the models added so far;

Once again, thanks so much, and please read the previous post carefully before donating,

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Black Sun Weekly…or at least that’s what it feels like at the moment; Record. Edit. Repeat 🙁

I do realise I missed a trick here. Episode 69 should clearly have been a “special” show with Matt!!

Please do check out the post below this about my VC army and if you can afford to spare a few quid, that’d be greatly appreciated. There’s a great army which is 100% going to be given away to one of you kind souls!!

So in this episode we discuss;

** How Dom literally saved my life before we recorded!
** Our lists and fears for Blood & Glory next week
** The filthiest game of Triumph and Treachery ever!
** A great Friday night in Metro’s
** The fantastic tournament; Tribute
** The impromptu announcement of our Christmas Special, to feature a one off Ask Ben Diesel segment (the original and best WFB Podcast Q&A segment – snack a dick, Dicks!)

TUNES!!
Intro – Enter Shikari – Sorry, You’re Not A Winner
0:25:15 – Of Mice & Men – Another You
0:29:50 – Of Mice & Men – Another You
0:56:25 – Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
1:25:20 – Alexisonfire – This Could Be Anywhere In The World
Outro – Slipknot – Wait And Bleed

Hope everyone is well. Just about to start editing Episode 69 (oh yeh!) but wanted to post this exciting news first.

For years, Podcasters have kindly asked for donations from their listeners. These donations can be for a multitude of things; gear, hosting, travel (often to overseas events), tickets, models, beer, you get the idea. Whilst such schemes always get their detractors, I think (as an avid Podcast listener myself) many fans are happy to give a little back in lieu of the time put into free content!

So I’m off to America again in January, to the simply fantastic Waaagh! Paca event, and I cant wait.

To the right of this post is a Paypal donate button. I would kindly ask that if you get any small measure of enjoyment from what me and my boys produce, you click the button and donate any amount, small or large, in multiples of £1 (please note). Your donations will be used towards my flight, my drink and potentially a new army.

Aside from this, please do not write any comment whatsoever in your donation (other than your name if you use someone else’s account). I cannot stress this point enough. You can also send Paypal as gift to lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com (THIS OPTION IS PREFERRED PLEASE) – the same applies though; Do not put a message (other than name if need be).

**EDIT – a Twitter handle in the note is also acceptable**

However, it does not end there.

If you are kind enough to donate to basically allow me to have fun, I feel like I should give something back (Yes, other than all that mega mega TBS goodness!).

So for every multiple of £1 you donate I will give you give a like for like number of chances to be the recipient of the Vampire Counts / Undead Legions army below.

This is not a raffle and you are not buying tickets. This is bro’s helping out bro’s.

The army was painted to a good tabletop standard by commission painter Chloe Clegg (she’s very good, you can find her on Facebook as CLC Painting). Its Strigoi themed and has a number of features that make it “pop” on the tabletop; namely the blood effects and the glowing eyes. Here is what’s in the initial army;

Ghoul King – Plastic model from Terrorgheist box, painted to an even stronger standard.

2x Terrorgheist – Plastic models, one kitbashed with the Zombie Dragon part for variety.

There is approximately £300 of models (hard to be exact with the OOP stuff) here alone.

Here are some photos, apologies for the poor image quality;

On top of the basic army I have plenty of other bits including army books, magic cards and additional models. The more that is donated the more I will decide to give away in return. Needless to say I will also post this to you wherever in the world you live!

The first goal we are aiming for is £400, once that is reached I’ll let you know and start giving info on how much more we’ll need before you can add for example, 90 Zombies to the army (Please note that if a minimum of £400 is not raised I will return all donations).

To decide who I give away the army to I will put everyone’s names onto a spreadsheet and get on a Skype video call with a couple of random impartials and roll some dice! This will all happen on the evening of Friday 12th December, obviously you can continue to donate after this date if you so desire!

Please remember not to include a note with your donations and of course it goes without saying, massive thanks in advance to all the kind souls donating 😉

If anyone is genuinely confused by all this, please e-mail me at lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com and I can explain further.

Better late than never, I an proud to finally present our coverage of my tournament; BLACKOUT!

We also discuss the fantastic new End Times release from GW; Glottkin and announce the winner of the BLACKOUT merch contest.

As you’ll hear, I probably need to sell my VC to fund my trip to Waaagh! Paca 2015, so if you’re interested, shoot me an e-mail!

Finally, check out the other Podcast I feature on, The Tabletop Project, for more BLACKOUT coverage on an upcoming episode. This can be found as part of the brilliant http://thelostlighthouse.com/ portfolio.
Don’t forget our new show email address if you want to get in touch with any of the hosts – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Chris
@the_black_sun

TUNES!!
Intro – Enter Shikari – OK, Time For Plan B
0:18:15 – (Hed)P.E. – Blackout
0:44:35 – The Blackout – The Beijing Cocktail
1:11:30 – City And Colour – Day Old Hate
1:50:25 – Linkin Park – Blackout
Outro – A Day to Remember – If It Means a Lot to You

This one of the most heavily cut episodes ever…I was inexplicably drunk on a weekday!

Please please check out the BLACKOUT Merch Contest below, it’ll really help out the show if you can get an entry in. The contest deadline is 10pm GMT 01/11/14 (TODAY!!)

Don’t forget our new show email address if you want to get in touch with any of the hosts – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

You lucky lucky people; two Episodes released in one day!! Crazy stuff.

This Episode was recorded directly after the revelations of the cock contest on Episode LXIV; myself and The Boss are still reeling!

Scott gives us a rundown of how he got on at Clash of Swords and also some handy tips on attracting middle aged women, if that’s your thing! There’s some fantastic Diesel chat, which prompted what has to be the best TBS cover EVER!

We then have a really fun interview with Nick Hoen from The Dweller’s Below. Unfortunately the sound isn’t what I’d like it to be, but I’m sure you’ll forgive this.

Once again, please check out the BLACKOUT Merch Contest below, it’ll really help out the show if you can get an entry in. Remember, the contest deadline is now 10pm GMT 01/11/14.

Don’t forget our new show email address if you want to get in touch with any of the hosts – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Enjoy the show and the thematic Tunes (first 3 dedicated to Big Dogger Diese, the outro obviously to Nick!)
Chris
@the_black_sun

Hey guys, sorry about the massive delay between shows here, been a super busy time for me (again!)

First thing, please check out the BLACKOUT Merch Contest below, it’ll really help out the show if you can get an entry in. Conversely to what I said in the show intro the contest deadline is now 10pm GMT 01/11/14.

In this episode I am joined by Dommy Four Fingers as we discuss our time at the fantastic Clash of Swords 2014, including a mixture of gaming and drinking reports!

Dom also talks hobby as he gives us an update on his super cool Dark Elf army.

The next episode will feature Scott’s review of the same event, as well as a brief interview with the Father of Lies, Nick Hoen.

Don’t forget our new show email address if you want to get in touch with any of the hosts – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

So BLACKOUT has been and gone; it was a great time for me as TO and it seemed like all the entrants enjoyed themselves as well.

There was some left over merch so I thought I’d out together a little package and have some fun. Basically what we’ve got here is a raffle of sorts. Up for grab there is;

– BLACKOUT pint glass (these are super limited and were given out to entrants. This is the only spare!)
– BLACKOUT reroll die (again, these are highly limited, only 50 were made!! Note this is a single die in Black & Gold)
– 10 BLACKOUT dice. In sexy Orange and Black.
– All 3 BLACKOUT bottle opener keyrings
– BLACKOUT poster (you’ll probably get a few!)
– BONUS (not pictured) if you are over 18 I’ll throw in some Dragon Soop!!!

So there you have it, what an awesome package of fun there! To enter all you have to do is send cash via Paypal (as gift/friends and family – so DON’T use the donate button on this page please) to lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com – PLEASE DO NOT MENTION RAFFLE, CONTEST, LOTTERY ETC ANYWHERE IN YOUR ENTRY! For each £1 you send you get one entry. Anyone can enter (even BLACKOUT entrants), anywhere in the world.

If you retweet the contest tweet and enter, you will double your number of entries!

Welcome to our review of Month 7 of our Slaughtering Grounds campaign. Be sure you head on over to theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com to check out the photos of the cool models we discuss.

We also have a bit of a chat about the fantastic new Nagash stuff; The End Times are here geeks, get over it and embrace it!! Unfortunately I was feeling a bit rough, I tried to cut all the coughs but some slipped through. There’s an interesting chat about motivation as well.

The highlight of the show is when Ben Diesel calls in! Gives you an insight into the day to day conversations we have with the Big Dogger!

Finally, we get onto the grand finale of our contest! The last 20 mins of this podcast do get a bit extreme in places, so please consider your environment when listening!!
Enjoy the show!

Chris
@the_black_sun // theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com

TUNES!!
Intro – A Day to Remember – The Downfall of Us All
0:28:10 – Beartooth – Me In My Own Head
0:55:45 – A Day to Remember – Since U Been Gone
1:23:05 – System Of A Down – Sugar
Outro – Puddle of Mudd – Control

I may have lost my voice post Clash of Swords but luckily I can still edit!

This show features myself and Matt Lee talking about what we’ve been up to in the hobby, a bit about the new Nagash stuff and our main topic of the fantastic little one dayer we attended; Vengeance (and the associated festivities!)

Don’t forget to get in your contest entries; send them to our new show email address – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Today, as well as a brief appearance from Matt Lee, I am joined by special guest Tom Bastian.

Tom is getting back into Warhammer Fantasy Battle after a large break. We talk over the “good ol’ days” before discussing some of the differences between Warhammer then and now. The last segment is unfortunately not that great, as we explain!

Don’t forget to get in your contest entries; send them to our new show email address – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com and check out the blog for our Slaughtering Grounds campaign – theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Once again its me and Scott as we discuss months 4 & 5 of The Slaughtering Grounds campaign, you’ll want to have http://theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com/ loaded up on your device whilst listening. There is also a bit of Wood Elf chat now that Scott is up to 7 games with his list.

Finally we have a bit of a old skool vibe throughout and announce a suitable competition along the same lines! There is a new show email address – theblacksunpodcast@gmail.com – You can send contest entries to that, as well as if you wish to offer Scott any Bretonnians for his future campaign.

Today its just me and The Boss as we discuss Months 2 & 3 of our Slaughtering Grounds campaign.

We also have a bit of a chat about hobby and some films we’ve seen, followed by a brief run-down of a one day Tournament we attended; The South Coast Brawl. There’s also a super interested chat around the heights of various pop artists!

If you didnt get it, we were being heavily sarcastic when talking about the Spiny B!!

Just a short solo show for you here. Not sure it will be all that exciting, but I was really keen to talk over the pack for my upcoming Tournament, BLACKOUT, before the tickets go on sale this coming Sunday.

TUNES!!
Intro – Fall Out Boy – I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
0:17:30 – Steel Panther – Bukakke Tears
0:39:00 – A Day to Remember – Sometimes You’re the Hammer, Sometimes You’re the Nail
Outro – Still Remains – Dancing With The Enemy

For this episode I am joined by Snoop Doggy Dom for the first time in a while, as well as fan favourite “Fathead” aka Weird Porn Matt Lee. We discuss three fantastic tournaments we have recently attended; Ill Blood, Spring Awakening and Gnoblars SCGT Practice. Also being the informative sort of guys we are, you will learn all about Youngers, hot shots & retarded cushions during this show!

So sit back and listen to 2 hours of fun time nonsense whilst you do your last minute painting for SCGT!!

Just myself and The Boss today as we discuss the first month of our new campaign; The Slaughtering Grounds. Please follow along on our new blog as well – www.theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Also, Dice still available. Black & Pink (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic below). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice. UK – £2 // International – £4.50

There is also very limited supply of the original Pink & White dice up for pre-order. Use the same payment method as above.

Welcome one and all to our long awaited coverage of the absolutely fantastic Waaagh! Paca tournament from back in January. There have been many delays to this, but I hope it will be everything you were hoping for…hhhmmm, I doubt it!

I am joined by two of my companions from the trip to America; Ben Diesel and Ricky Mee.

As to be expected, it’s a long time before any WFB talk. Overall I tried to cut a LOT of our non essential chat, but I was fighting a losing battle there. Unfortunately, Diesel has my old squeaky chair and insists on spinning on it. Great!

So sit back, crack open a can of Dragon Soop and hear about our time in Chicago; Chris gets drunks alone, Diesel and Ricky go to a “gentlemen’s” club. Then onto the Friday in Waupaca, where American gamers make the mistake to trying to outdrink a pistol toting Ben Diesel!

We do then, of course, cover the Tournament itself!! I really really hope you enjoy the show and that it was worth the wait.

Also, Dice still available. Black & Pink as pictured below (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic below). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice. UK – £2 // International – £4.50

There is also very limited supply of the original Pink & White dice up for pre-order. Use the same payment method as above.

Normal service will resume with a couple of episodes planned over the next month. Don’t forget to check the new campaign blog over at www.theblacksunpodcast.tumblr.com

Welcome to something slightly different from The Black Sun; today I am joined by fan favourite Weird Porn Matt Lee as we discuss the fantastic upcoming game Guildball and it’s current Kickstarter. We are a bit all over the place with fanboy joy, but hopefully theres enough info in here to pique your interest and prompt you to check out the kickstarter yourself.

As mentioned on the show, black & pink dice are still available as per below. Also there is a very limited supply of the original pink & white dice availabe via pre-order. Email me at lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com for info.

Come back next time for the long awaiting Waaagh!Paca episode – So sorry for the lengthy delay on this.

Oh, and don’t forget to check out our new Tumblr blog for our map based campaign. Plenty of updates coming there over the next month.

*Note; this is not the WAAAGH!Paca episode you may be hoping for – That is due out in the next week*

Welcome back to another fun packed episode of The Black Sun bitches!

Regular hosts Chris, Scott and Dom are joined by fan favourite Weird Porn Matt to discuss the House Championships that recently took place at The Giant’s Lair in Plymouth.

We also cover the new White Dwarf Weekly & Warhammer Visions magazines. There’s also a very interesting (I think!) chat about proxy models//armies at tournaments.

On top of all this, we get a stunning revelation about Orc nipples, find out that Matt likes to tell lies and that Scott is now a “First Blood” Wrestling Champion!!

Also, dice are still available. The new colour design is in stock and ready to buy (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic below). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice. UK – £2 // International – £4.50

I only get each colour of dice made once, so when these are gone, that’s it!

Thanks for listening, check back soon for our WAAAGH!Paca coverage…

Chris @the_black_sun

*PS – I do hope people listen after the outro as habit, but if not, its certainly worth doing so this time around!!

This episode was recorded “live” at this years Downfall event. I used a new portable recorder – I think a pop filter and a better understanding of the settings would of helped sound quality; but hopefully it has that Old Skool feel that long time listeners may have enjoyed in the past.

This is a sort’ve homage to our early days, with lots of short, fun segments, plenty of music and a general party feel. Obviously theres plenty of Warhammer chat as well.

I don’t think anyone will know or appreciate how long this took me to edit and put out, so much stuff had to be cut…considering some of the stuff that made it in, this may surprise you!

Luckily I managed to get the recorder back out the week after at Dom’s birthday extravaganza, giving us a bit more content. Most of what we recorded then wasn’t suitable for listening though haha!!

Also, plenty of dice still available. The new colour design is in stock and ready to buy (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic below). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice. UK – £2 // International – £4.50

I only get each colour of dice made once, so when these are gone, that’s it!

So I hope you enjoy the show, with some old friends and a super special celebrity introduction. Many thanks to anyone that has listened over the years and heres to the next 50 shows!

Welcome back to episode of The Black Sun, this time its another one for the fluff gamers!

First things first, lets talk dice. The new colour design is in stock and ready to buy (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic below). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice.
UK – £2 // International – £4.50

I only get each colour of dice made once, so when these are gone, that’s it!

This time its just me and Scott as we discuss our upcoming fluff campaign, with the expected deviations! Scott is after Scibor and Mierce Beastmen stuff, contact him on Twtiter @wardenmunger. I discusses army plans for Downfall and WAAAGH!Paca then talk some snow techniques. Also included below is a link to my (non updated!) Dark Elf blog on www.druchii.net.

Enjoy the show and look out for a super special EPISODE 50 next time around!!

Hello and welcome back to another fun packed episode of The Black Sun!

First things first, lets talk dice. The new colour design is in stock and ready to buy (the pips are actually more of pastel baby pink colour rather than the white the look in the pic). The easiest way to purchase is to click on the donate button on the www.theblacksun.co.uk homepage and donate the right amount. Just be sure to include your postal address in the payment. Costs are as follows;

£8 per set of 10 dice – postage costs only need to be paid once for up to 3 sets of dice.
UK – £2 // International – £4.50

I only get each colour of dice made once, so when these are gone, that’s it!

Anyway, on to the show! We try a different format of sorts here with 4 segments, each around 30mins long. This has allowed us to actually manage the fabled “short show”, even with all 4 of us on mic!

We talk fluffhammer with Ben Diesel (ha!) and discover my dark secret about bongo drums before getting on to the main subject; Tribute. This was a fantastic tournament run by Team Andy Joyce, so find out how we all got on…I’ll say no more!!

We finish up with some random chit chat about Dark Elves and a special announcement from The Boss.
Enjoy,

Slight delay in this episode thanks to a pretty nasty ankle injury I sustained in the most manly of fashions (and definitely not playing Badminton!!!).

Once again it’s a stupidly long episode, we really are going to try to curb this, but with two Tournaments to report on its pretty tough.

We have Ben Diesel back on air, so prepare for plenty of heavy breathing, burping, farting, sneezing & coughing!! Find out what everyone has been up to in the hobby as we have a little “show & tell (or should that be “show & break”?!) during the recording. My Mantic Elves are since much improved from the descriptions during this episode and no where near as offensive…maybe. Scott’s Kislev is coming on nicely and even Diesel has been hobbying.

The first tournament reviewed is the Portsmouth Pillage with its controversial (lack of) points docking. Scott tells us of his love for Jim Henderson before we get into a chat on how the tournament went.

Next up was the fantastic Clash of Swords, run by Mo Ashraf, where much fun was had by all. The Black Sun’s old adversary, Stephen Hawking (Stuart Hawkins), is back and faces off against no less than 3 of us in the one event!! Who will come out on top?! Also we find out about the 2 hours Scott spent in the company of All The Porn Andy Russell – Not to be missed!

Don’t forget to check the links below for some of the stuff mentioned during the show.

We’ve had a bit of a break, but are back with a bumper long (or standard length for us nowadays?) show with plenty to talk about. Unfortunately something went wrong whilst recording and from the second segment onwards, it sounds like we are recording over Skype, at the bottom of the ocean. I have no idea what went wrong, it’s thoroughly demoralising and I almost binned the episode, but thought you lovely peopled deserved something after such a gap between shows.

Hopefully you can get some enjoyment from the show regardless and suffice to say, it won’t happen again!

This episode we are covering not one, not two, but THREE tournaments; The “6” Nations, The Midlands Open and The Weymouth Waaagh!

Byron from Element Games also calls in to chat to us about there most recent news. Dom gives us an update on his Girlfriend (had you heard? Dom Hook has a girlfriend!!). Myself and Scott talking about Roleplaying and introduce our Pathfinder characters!

Don’t forget that you can help the show by donating over on www.theblacksun.co.uk – just follow the Paypal link. I’m also including a link to the unofficial WFB army books we mentioned, check ’em out! I am in talks this week for some brand new dice, so look out for them!

I have nothing further to add for now, other than how much I love #scotchjan

Sorry about the overdue release of this show. I’m not gonna say a lot, just that this is definitely the most edited episode EVER; Once you hear what made the show you’ll be wondering what got cut!!

We mostly talk about our time at The Giants Lair ETC Team Event with the usual string of tangents. Tournament regulars and ETC Team Bulgaria Superstars Yavor Bidzhov & Hristo Nikolov also drop in for a quick chat, as well as TV presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern.

Oh and don’t forget to send in suggestions of WFB Tournament players to Footballers!!

Finally I am very pleased to announce our episode covering the fantastic South Coast GT this year. As per usual its a 3 hour marathon combining tales of drunken stupidity and Warhammer alike.

I had a brilliant time at this event, foreshadowed by me actually getting the Twitter hashtag #SCGT2013 Tattooed on my leg!!! I really hope you get even just a fraction of that enjoyment whilst listening to our report of it.

We don’t actually get into any real WFB talk until after the second music break, but if you’re a fan of ours, that’s probably not gonna phase you; theres plenty to keep you entertained along the way.

I guess I need to renounce my claim that Steve Wren is the worst WFB player in the country. But I won’t give any more spoilers here, just listen to the show and have fun!

If you want to help us out, I have added a Paypal Donation button to the website; any contribution is great appreciated.

Don’t forget that Element Games will be announcing a voucher winner or two on Twitter 18/05/2013 – for your chance to win you need to place an order over at www.elementgames.co.uk and mention The Black Sun in your order notes. If you can send them a dodgy MS Paint fantasy cock beast, your chances will surely be improved!! @ElementGames_

I have just added a Paypal Donate button to the top of the side bar —–>

Anything you can spare will go a long way to helping out with things like hosting//website costs and an upcoming domain renewal. Also if we can get enough in, I can increase the monthly upload allowance in order to get some of the older shows back on the website, which would be pretty exciting. I intend to get some new dice made up later this year, so additional funds will go towards that also.

If you are kind enough to make a donation, please feel free to contact me and arrange a shout-out for the show.

Thanks for listening and much love to anyone donating, its hugely appreciated!!

I am joined by SCGT Organiser, ETC England Player and fellow Nu Metal & Warriors of Chaos fan; Russ Veal.

We take a second look over the Warriors of Chaos book with an expect opinion this time around. This show is a bit of a departure from our usual style, but hopefully you enjoy the change of pace (I eagerly welcome all feedback on this show).

Luckily, the Twitter question segment brings the tone back down to standard TBS fare!!

Unfortunately, due to this being recorded via Skype, the sound quality is not what we are used to. Hopefully the excellent content from Russ will make up for this.

This time round we are back with a Tournament report; The fantastic SCGT Warm-up at The Giant’s Lair in Plymouth. We also get a lengthy old skool TBS drunk tale, as well as another fluff reading from The Boss (keep your WFB erotica coming in, he loves it!).

I will be moving the hosting of the site soon, hopefully you guys won’t encounter any issues as a result of this. We are looking for donations and maybe additional sponsorship to help us out – you can contact me direct at lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com – many thanks in advance.

Look out for Episode 40 which will be something really different for TBS as we have a good chat with Russ Veal.

This will be the final installment for now as we wrap the series up. Plenty of potentially for revisiting this down the line though.

Don’t forget to play along at home over on www.theblacksun.co.uk (click To40KG Blog Posts) – there is a slight issue with some of the photos at the momennt but I will update them in due time. Also I will add blog posts as and when people finish extra units.

As any fans of this series will have realised, we have been well behind in posting up photos from the latter stages of the project. It is for now wrapped up with the release of Episode 8 (which will be later on tonight). So without further ado I thought I’d just share a load of photos of everything else I haven’t posted before. Unfortunately I won’t be breaking them down month by month or telling you who failed what month – listen to the show for that. Just enjoy some pretty photos.

This episode sees the start of a new competition – “The Boss’s Fluff Contest”. Up for grabs are some vouchers for the fantastic and generous Element Games. Listen to find out how you can take part, get your entries in to scott.lines@hotmail.co.uk

Scott did have a bit of a sharp cough in this show, I have tried to edit them all out but a couple may have found their way in.

Welcome to a very special release; the first Videocast in Black Sun history! What a fantastic way to kick off 2013. This was the idea of #To40KG co-host Gary Hennessey, who went on to film//edit//produce this episode. So massive thanks to him for putting the work in to get this done.

The video itself is what you may expect from The Black Sun, we don’t take ourselves too seriously as we play some toy soldiers, have some beers and take the piss of one another (especially poor Jan!). I almost didn’t release this, as its true what they say, the camera really does add 108 pounds (either that or I am just really fat!!). I look disgusting, and safe to say this video will prompt some form of dieting…so The Black Sun officially IS good for your health!!

We’d love to hear any opinions on this episode, infact more than usual. Let us know what you think of this style of show and if it proves popular we will endeavour to put out more.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy whilst listening to Episode 6 of the show. Remember we had to paint an Elite choice as well as a Fast Attack choice for Month 3. We are past the halfway point now, so lets see how everyone is getting on…

Craig Wheeler – Chaos Space Marines

5 Chaos Space Marine Terminators

Heldrake

Gary Hennessey – Orks

10 Burna Boyz

Dakka Jet

Chris Tomlin – Necrons; FAIL!!! (Buying back in)

Jan Proudley – Tyranids; FAIL!!! (Buying back in)

Aaron Bailey – Eldar; FAIL!!! (Buying back in)

Matt Lee – Dark Eldar; FAIL!!! (Dropping out)

So as you can see it wasn’t an overly successful month! Lets hope everyone can step up their game and catch up for Month 4. Tune in to find out. Cheers,

Welcome back to another installment of TBS Tale of 40K Gamers. In this episode we talk about Month 3 and how well (or badly!) people have done. We also discuss our plans to actually play this game, as well as the future of the series.

Just a quick one today guys. After a chat with our sponsor, Byron Orde from www.elementgames.co.uk I have reordered the Month 2 blog post so that it flows better with Episode 5 – namely putting the armies in the order they are discussed on the show.

Ok…Its all well and good calling this thing an audio blog, but without updates it sort’ve fails, right? So, only about a month late, but finally you can feast your eyes on the fantastic work we all produced during Month 2. Unfortunately The Joe dropped out at some point during this month, so no more Space Wolves to share.

So without further a do, here are photos of what everyone painted in Month Two. For this month we had to paint a HQ and a Troops choice, including all relevant add-on’s and Dedicated Transports. I have included small bits of blurb that some of the participants submitted. Obviously for me and Gary you can listen to Episode 5 for our thoughts! Apologies for the quality of some of the photos.

Jan Proudley – Tyranids

Hive Tyrant

3 Hive Guard

Tervigon

Month Two Group Shot

Army Group Shot

Matt Lee – Dark Eldar

“I still don’t like painting raiders but that’s the second one all done. Month 2 has allowed me to spend a little bit of time on my Archon and I am particularly happy with the Agoniser and cloak. The Warriors took a little extra work as I couldn’t decide on the helmets but I think the gold has worked well.”

Archon

10 Kabalite Warriors

Group Shot

Chris Tomlin – Necrons

Necron Overlord

3 Crypteks

7 Immortals

Nightscythe

Group Shot

Gary Hennessey – Orks

“This month was a real challenge. After the first month of 12 Warbikers, I knew what pain this month’s 12 Warbikers held! I decided to paint Wazzdakka first to get the ball rolling. It’s a lovely model from Forgeworld. I am happy overall with it, though I feel I may have done to much rust. I then decided to make and paint the 12 bikers in 3 days! Managed it and here are the results;”

Wazzdakka

12 Ork Warbikers

Aaron Bailey – Eldar

“That’s all the guardians done, so it should be interesting getting into the Aspect Warriors in future months to add some different colour schemes. Glad I don’t have to do any more white! Pretty happy with how things have turned out and was great to see them on tabletop with Jan’s fully painted Month 2 stuff for the first time.”

Farseer and Warlocks

10 Guardians w/ Weapons Platform and Warlock

Group Shot

Craig Wheeler – Chaos Space Marines

“So month two was a tricky month for me as I suffered from a bad case of painters block. Originally I was going to paint some Cultists as my troops choice, but no matter what ideas I had, I was never happy with the finished product. Then I had the same trouble with my Daemon Prince… But! Four weeks later and I have finished! First up is my Daemon Prince Kora’Van’eth. Formerly Jarod the Blackened of the 16th Legion. I had originally planned to paint him with pale blue skin, but as time went on I felt that he just was not looking right. Eventually I decided to go for a more “default” scheme and settled on red, which I feel suits the model much better! Next up is a small unit of Plague Marines, Although I had planned to replace these guys with Cultists, lack of time and my love of these older minis meant I had to include them.”

Firstly apologies for how ridiculously behind we are on this thing. In this episode, myself and Gary talk about what everyone painted for Month 2 (we are actually on Month 4 now!!) and give some thoughts on everyones work. Don’t forget to head on over to www.theblacksun.co.uk and click on “TO40KG – Blog Posts” to view some photos of the models we are discussing.

We will be endeavouring to catch up on this project and also do some gaming related shows. So stick with us and enjoy it as and when we get our acts together. I say we, its mostly just me!!

Just a short one today. Find out about Jan sexually assaulting mentals (there was due to be more on this after the outro song, but the recording was corrupted. Shame), how we have used iMessage to motivate each other and a quick review of the models in the new Dark Vengeance box set. Also sad news as another one of our number drops out of the tale.

This time me and Gary are joined by regular guest to the main show, Weird Porn Matt.

We briefly talk about the new Chaos Space Marine releases, including the Daemon Seagull.
In a break from the norm, we talk about gaming as Matt runs us through his proposed 1850 list (Is 1850 points a standard game or have we been duped?!).

I contribute absolutely nothing whatsoever, other than putting us off topic. shocker eh!

We actually learn a few rules a long the way, as well as a sex tip for Dom and a pretty disturbing fact from Gary!

Obviously we jest in reference to other 40K podcasts, I’d actually be interested to here about any other good shows out there!

Our main show email is still down, so contact me on lunatic_pandora@btinternet.com and follow me on twitter @the_black_sun

Also don’t forget that all the photos of our stuff will appear on www.theblacksun.co.uk so please check it out!

It occured to me (after a few prods on Twitter) that I really needed to be sharing some photos of what we are all getting up to in this project. This should complete my aim of making the Tale of 40K Gamers Podcasts a sort of audio blog.

So without further a do, here are photos of what everyone painted in Month One. Remember we had to paint a Troops choice as well as a Heavy Support choice. I have included small bits of blurb that the participants submitted. Obviously for me and Gary you can listen to Episode 2 for our thoughts! Apologies for the quality of some of the photos.

Chris Tomlin – Necrons

12 Necron Warriors

Annihilation Barge

Gary Hennessey – Orks

12 Ork Bikers

Battlewagon

Jan Proudley – TyranidsI choose the Gargoyles and the Termagaunts because I wanted to get half of my chaff out of the way and give myself a good head start model-wise. Painting wise here’s what I did:

Skin was a base coat of Baneblade Brown, followed by a shade of Athonian Camoshade and then I highlight of Baneblade Brown and Ulthuan Grey 50/50.

Carapace was a base coat of Castellan Green, followed by a line and edge highlight of Skarsnik Green and a finer highlight of Moot Green.

The orange is done with a Troll Slayer Orange with a shade of Athonian Camoshade to add depth.

Teeth and eyes done with Ulthuan Grey.

Saying that I really enjoyed painting the gargoyles and trying new things on the wings which has aided me in painting one thing in particular for month 2.

10 Termagaunts

20 Gargoyles

Matt Lee – Dark Eldar“For my month 1 choices I went for a unit of 9 Wyches in their Raider and a Talos. The Wyches were my first troop unit simply because I had the models. The Talos was a model I wanted to paint very early on to ensure I could fit in the paint scheme.

The Models have been painted in a simple dark scheme with some brighter colours. All the metal areas have been painted Ironbreaker washed with a 1:1 mix of Abaddon Black and Nuln Oil, and then edge highlighted with Mithril Silver. Most areas have then been kept black. Gems and pipework have been painted Hawk Turquiose and all hair painted orange. I have loved painting the models so far, bar the Raider; I am really out of practice painting large flat areas. Luckily I have a lot more vehicles to paint…Roll on month 2!”

9 Wyches

Raider

Talos

Aaron Bailey – Eldar“I really enjoyed the poseability of 40K models and not having to rank stuff up. Basing was fun to do as well. I knew the paint scheme I wanted and was happy with the results. Painting the tank was strange, airbrush was really helpful for a smooth coat and really quick. The best part was having the iMessage chat to keep motivation with some healthy banter and seeing others progress. It kept it really interactive. Overall I’m really happy so far and can’t wait to play some games. Pew pew!”

10 Guardians w/ Weapons Platform and Warlock

Falcon

Joe Hadfield – Space Wolves

5 Grey Hunters

5 Long Fangs

Craig Wheeler – Chaos Space Marines“So I went for the Black Legion mainly because I wanted to update my old army, but also because I wanted to show that they are not a dull army to paint. Hopefully I’ve managed to achieve that!

With the first squad I spent about a while posing each marine, to get across that these guys have been through roughly 10 000 years of warfare and treat most battlefields with casual indifference. Paintwise, I went for a dull bronze rather than gold for the shoulder trims as I felt that anything brighter would make the models look to ‘busy’ with the yellow or red spot colours.

I’m not to happy with the bases if I’m honest. I wanted the barren desert look, but I feel that i should have put some more rocks or bones on their just to break it up a bit.”

10 Chaos Space Marines

Rhino

Predator

So I hope you guys enjoyed the eye candy, and be sure to check back for more soon!

Welcome back, sorry for the delay in between episodes. Hopefully they will be more frequent now. Once again I am joined by gary Hennessey, this time via the magic of Skype (these shows will not be recorded on the new equipment).

Month one is now finished, so this slightly longer show goes into detail on how myself and Gary painted our units as well as a brief overview of how the other participants got on. This is a re-recording as we lost Gary’s audio the first time around.

Welcome to the first in what will be a series of short recordings about me and some of my friends foray into the world of Warhammer 40,000 – eurghhh!

This episode I am joined by Gary Hennessey, who will be my regular co-host on this segment. The sound is horrible in parts as we were sat in the wind outside Wetherspoons, then the seagulls kick in. Sorry!!

We give a brief overview of what the Tale of 40k Gamers is, who is involved and what they are doing as well as some updating you on the love life of New Cock Jan! Gary also goes a bit more in depth about the plans for his Ork army.

This was recorded over a month ago, but they will be more frequent now, so keep an eye out for future episodes. If you aren’t interested in 40K, then just dont listen!!